We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE BladeSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Blade Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The solution is expensive."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 62 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 133 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "Robust hardware and efficient management of hardware, creating group policies, such as scrub policies and maintenance policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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